Tom Racine’s Tall Tale Radio podcast this last week featured Mark Tatulli and Dave Coverly, both winners at this year’s National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Awards Weekend. Tom takes the conversation into a post-Reuben wrap up and gets Dave and Mark’s reaction to the recent dust-up over Keith Knight’s cartoon over improving the NCS. Also appearing […]
Google has upset many professional illustrators by asking them to contribute original artwork (to their specifications) for a project with its new browser in exchange for exposure. “While we don’t typically offer monetary compensation for these projects,” the statement said, “through the positive feedback that we have heard thus far we believe these projects provide […]
While checking out the new features on Universal Press/uClick’s GoComcs.com, I noticed that in the A-Z list of features, when you mouse over the name of the feature, a little pop-up shows a brief description of the feature and how many people subscribe to it. Given that they offer that kind of information, the next […]
Animation» Animated News blog reports that Ponyo, the Hayao Miyazaki film that is coming to the United States will open on an unprecedented 800 screens this August. His earlier film, Spirited Away only opened in 600.Interviews» Michael Cavna interviews Boston Globe political cartoonist Dan Wasserman.
More gloom and doom writings about the state of editorial cartooning in the industry. This time from Editor and Publisher. To be a newspaper staff editorial cartoonist these days is to live in dread that the next phone call is coming from the human resources department. “There’s a great sense of dismay and gloom in […]
Comic Strips» Mallard Fillmore creator Bruce Tinsley will be on “The O’Reilly Factor” tomorrow night at 8:00 pm (EST) to discuss the 15th anniversary of his strip.» Cory Pandolph launches his fourth comic feature Monday. Promo video (of sorts) on youTube.Interviews» Scott Nickel continues his series of interviews. The latest round include Peter Bagge and […]
Image Comics will be releasing the first of two collections of Liberty Meadows Sunday strips on July 1. The collections contain over three hundred pages of Frank Cho’s Sunday strips. According to Comic Book Resources the strips featured in this collection contain the uncensored versions that were altered for syndication through Creators.
June 9, 1934 Donald Duck made his debut with the line, “Who, me? Oh no. I’ve got a belly ache.” According to CBSNews.com, he has since had his own comic strip in 1938, 150 other cartoons and seven feature films. He won an Oscar in 1943 for his role in “Der Fuehrer’s Face.”
Last week, Keith Knight posted a cartoon responding to his first time attending a National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben award weekend. In the cartoon he suggests various ways the NCS could improve the events which include: holding the conferences in smaller locales, being more inclusive to webcomickers and indie cartoonists, have more public events and organize […]
Editorial Cartooning» Daryl Cagle will moderate a panel of editorial cartoonists again this year at the San Diego ComicCon. Pat Oliphant will be there.» Mike Lynch as an excellent review of Draper Hill’s career. Draper passed away two weeks ago. He was the editorial cartoonist for the Detroit News.Interviews» Todd Dolce interviews Molly and the […]
Apologies up front for departing from the normal cartooning topics. For the last several months I’ve been busy working on a major web project that has consumed much of my “blogging time” – especially in the last couple of months. Yesterday we launched several websites (more on that later) and I anticipate returning to a […]
Last week, Chip Bok’s cartoon poking fun at Republicans dealing with how to approach the Judge Sonia Sotomayor nomination to the Supreme Court, created a stir in segments of the Latino community by depicting the Puerto Rican judge as a pinata. Here is around up of some of the national press the cartoon has raised.The […]
Both the Animation Blog and Pixar Planet blogs are reporting that “Monsters, Inc. 2” is now in development with a likely release date for 2013. Other confirmed sequels include “Toy Story 3” next year followed by “Cars 2” in 2011. Pete Docter, the original director for “Monsters, Inc” is also said to be returning for […]
Came across this video this morning to hype the release of Stephan Pastis’ 12th Pearls Before Swine comic collection. It’s an excellent example of viral marketing to sell comic book collections.Very funny, Stephan. Seriously, what does John Glynn do all day at Universal Press besides make videos for rival comic strips and post on his […]
Last April, I broke the news that Jean Schulz had contributed $1 million dollars to the renovation of the Sullivant Hall building which will be the future home of the Ohio State Cartoon Library and Museum. Jean also pledged to match an additional $2.5 million by other donors. The university is now taking online donations. […]